Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius of South Africa

JOHANNESBURG (AP)

Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius has gone home after being operated on following a boating accident, a hospital spokeswoman said yesterday.

Amelda Swartz, spokeswoman for Johannesburg's Milpark Hospital, said that Pistorius was "doing well" and had been sent home the day before.

Head injuries

Pistorius sustained head and facial injuries in a boating accident near Johannesburg on Saturday and had surgery at Milpark on the following day.

Pistorius, the paralympic 100-metre and 400-metre champion, had his legs amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old because he had no fibulas.

Last year, an appeals court overturned a ban by athletics governing body the IAAF, which had ruled that his carbon-fibre prosthetic racing blades gave him an unfair advantage.

Ban overturned

The ban was overturned in time for the Beijing Olympics, but Pistorius failed to make the qualifying time for the 400.

In an interview last month the athlete said that his main goal for this year was to compete against able-bodied athletes at the world championships in Berlin in August, and step up his training for the 2012 London Olympics.

Pistorius planned to race in South Africa in February and March before returning to Europe for the meet in Manchester, and then focus on qualifying for Berlin.